I am not sure of the date, but this would have been somewhere ‘around’ the late eighties. A friend of mine informed me of a couple of submarines over at the CFB Shearwater pier and with him having access to the lower part of the base, we drove over. It was a wonderful surprise to find USS Shark and USS Skipjack tied up in clear view. This was my first close up look at one of the fast little boats of the Skipjack class. Having just returned from New London, CT and seeing one of the Ohio’s out on the slipway at GD Electric Boat, viewing this tiny pair had come as a bit of a shock. I had just snapped this image when a military police officer ‘suggested’ that my camera and I should leave now and wanting to stay in his good graces, we did just that. The negative unfortunately has a few ‘dings’ in it but it is still a nice shot of the pair of boats berthed inside the jetty.
USS Shark is on the left and you can see by the huddled look of the sailor on USS Skipjack’s plane, that it is a chilly day in Halifax which can be seen in the background. At that time, visits by US and Brit boats were pretty frequent but over the years, they have dropped off considerably.
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